Like a good book, hospitality is about entertainment and allowing your readers and guests to step outside of their day to day. Hotels are also a perfect backdrop for a great story. Discover author, Caroline James's favourite books about hospitality.

Author Matthew Blakstad asks if novelists should be crafting comforting illusions to blanket the world from near and present horrors; or rather, should they rip away the curtain, reveal the stark mechanics of power?